With his knack for translating science into understandable, anecdotal prose and his trademark dry humor, award-winning science writer Charles Seife presents the first narrative account of the history of fusion for general readers in more than a decade. Tracing the story from its beginning into the twenty-first century, Sun in a Bottle reveals fusion's explosive role in some of ...(展开全部)

When weapons builders detonated the first hydrogen bomb in 1952, they tapped into the biggest source of energy in our solar system a " the phenomenon that makes the sun shine. Nuclear fusion seems a virtually unlimited source of power, but it has been at the center of a tragic and comic pursuit that has left scores of scientists battered and disgraced. Like the eternal quest to...(展开全部)

查尔斯·塞费，出版了4本个人著作，其中包括《瓶中的太阳》和《零》，后者是首部荣获美国马尔塔·阿尔布朗文学奖的非小说类文学作品，也是《纽约时报》推荐图书。他的个人作品经常见于《科学》、《纽约时报》、《新科学家》、《科学美国人》、《经济学家》和《连线》等报刊杂志上。他生活在纽约，现任纽约大学新闻学教授。

What do Virginia Woolf, the rotation of hurricanes, Babylonian kings and Einstein's General Theory Relativity all have in common? Eclipses. Always spectacular and, today, precisely predicable, eclipses have allowed us to know when the first Olympic games were played and, long before the first space probe, that the Moon was covered by dust. Eclipses have stunned, frightened, emb...(展开全部)

Sweating may be one of our weirdest biological functions, but it’s also one of our most vital and least understood. In The Joy of Sweat, Sarah Everts goes behind the taboo and delves into its role in the body— and in human history. She reveals the wondrous mechanics of the sweat glands and the millions of sweat pores in human skin. She explores why sweat is salty, why what you ...(展开全部)

乔治·萨顿(George Sarton，1884～1956)，出生于比利时，但是在美国成就了他的事业。正是在他手中，科学史最终成为一门正式学科。1913年他创办了著名科学史杂Isis，并担任主编长达40年。1940年他被任命为哈佛大学的科学史教授。人们认为他创造了科学史这门学科的“工具、标准以及批判的自觉性”，故誉之为“科学史之父”。萨顿生前出版了15部专著，发表了340多篇论文和札记，编辑了79份详尽的科学史重要研究文献目录。这些都是他留给后人的珍贵遗产。

The Wiley Blackwell Companion to the History of Science is a single volume companion that discusses the history of science as it is done today, providing a survey of the debates and issues that dominate current scholarly discussion, with contributions from leading international scholars.

戴维·R.奥尔德罗伊德，澳大利亚新南威尔大学科学史与科学哲学学院名誉教授，澳大利亚人文科学院院士，国际地质学史委员会前秘书长（任期1996-2004年），现任该会副主席。他还是大洋洲科学史、科学哲学和科学社会学会会长，国际科学史研究院通信院士。他因在地质学史研究方面的卓越成就，荣获1994年英国伦敦地质学会颁发的弗里德曼奖章、1999年美国地质学会的科学史研究奖、2003年澳大利亚联邦政府授予的“世纪奖”。奥尔德罗伊德的著作包括《达尔文主义的影响》、《知识之弓》和《高地论占》，主编了《地球之内外——20世纪地质学之主要贡献》等书。

In November 1519, Hernando Corts walked along a causeway leading to the capital of the Aztec kingdom and came face to face with Moctezuma. That story--and the story of what happened afterwards--has been told many times, but always following the narrative offered by the Spaniards. After all, we have been taught, it was the Europeans who held the pens. But the Native Americans we...(展开全部)

In 1957, Ryszard Kapuscinski arrived in Africa to witness the beginning of the end of colonial rule as the first African correspondent of Poland's state newspaper. From the early days of independence in Ghana to the ongoing ethnic genocide in Rwanda, Kapuscinski has crisscrossed vast distances pursuing the swift, and often violent, events that followed liberation. Kapuscinski h...(展开全部)